Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece--an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him.
For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager--a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters,
American Pastoral gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/03/1998
ISBN: 9780375701429
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Review Citations: Commonweal 06/18/2004 pg. 28
Newsweek 10/01/2007 pg. 80
Time 02/18/2008 pg. 60
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 98
Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 48
New York Times Book Review 03/16/2014 pg. 15